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Lord’s Day 16, 2009

I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. (Psalme 122:1 Geneva Bible)

HYMN XVI
Manna hoarded. Ex. xvi. 20.
by John Newton (1725–1807)

John Newton

THE manna favor’d Israel’s meat,
Was gather’d day by day;
When all the host was serv’d, the heat
Melted the rest away.

In vain to hoard it up they try’d,
Against to-morrow came;
It then bred worms and putrify’d
And prov’d their sin and shame.

’Twas daily bread and would not keep,
But must be still renew’d;
Faith should not want a hoard or heap
But trust the Lord for food.

The truths by which the soul is fed
Must thus be had afresh;
For notions resting in the head,
Will only feed the flesh.

However true, they have no life,
Or unction to impart;
They breed the worms of pride and strife,
But cannot cheer the heart.

Nor can the best experience past,
The life of faith maintain;
The brightest hope will faint as last,
Unless supply’d again.

Dear Lord, while we in pray’r are found,
Do thou the Manna give;
Oh! Let it fall on all around,
That we may eat and live.

—from Olney Hymns. Book I: On select Passages of Scripture.

Psalme 119:121–128
(Geneva Bible)
Ain.
121 I haue executed iudgement and iustice: leaue me not to mine oppressours.
122 Answere for thy seruant in that, which is good, and let not the proude oppresse me.
123 Mine eyes haue failed in waiting for thy saluation, and for thy iust promise.
124 Deale with thy seruant according to thy mercie, and teache me thy statutes.
125 I am thy seruant: graunt mee therefore vnderstanding, that I may knowe thy testimonies.
126 It is time for thee Lord to worke: for they haue destroyed thy Lawe.
127 Therefore loue I thy commandements aboue golde, yea, aboue most fine golde.
128 Therefore I esteeme all thy precepts most iust, and hate all false wayes.